Upside Down (I) (2012)

Adam and Eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. Ten years after a forced separation, Adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love.

Director:

Juan Solanas

Writer:

Juan Solanas

Stars:

Kirsten Dunst, Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall

Cast

Credited cast:
Kirsten Dunst	...	Eden
Jim Sturgess	...	Adam
Timothy Spall	...	Bob Boruchowitz
Neil Napier	...	Security agent
Jayne Heitmeyer	...	Executive
Agnieshka Wnorowska	...	Ballroom Dancer
James Kidnie	...	Lagavullan
Heidi Hawkins	...	Reporter
Larry Day
Frank M. Ahearn	...	Flynn
Don Jordan	...	Host
Holly O'Brien	...	Paula
Nicholas Rose	...	Pablo
Vincent Messina	...	Tommy
John Maclaren	...	Moderator

Storyline

Adam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he loved once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach... a girl named Eden. Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. But when he catches a glimpse of grownup Eden on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back... Not even the law or science!

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Plot Keywords:

amnesia | police | pomegranate | orphan | tango | 

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Taglines:

Two worlds. One future.

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Canada France

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 May 2013 (France)

Also Known As:

Anamesa se dyo kosmous

Filming Locations:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$60,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$28,722 (USA) (15 March 2013)

Gross:

$102,118 (USA) (5 April 2013)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jouror Productions, Onyx Films, Studio 37

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Emile Hirsch was originally in talks to star.

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Quotes

Bob Boruchowitz: We're 90 percent water, right? So I've combined upper and lower inversion with a hyper infusion, yeah? Yeah.

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Crazy Credits

The title appears in its stylized state at the beginning: "UPSIDE NWOD"

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Connections

References The Man Without a Head (2003)

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Soundtracks

"Driftwood"
Performed by Aggie

User Reviews

First there were the Visuals, then someone thought up a story

Let's imagine an impossible setup, and tell it like it was science. Then start ripping it apart with every action, each one more impossible than the one before it. Add some impossible beings, made impossible by the previous impossible setup, and make them a secret central point of the whole plot. Now throw in some socio-political overtone to everything you say and do. Don't explain it, just throw it in, it doesn't need to make any sense. Also add some romance. No one will know where it came from, or how it got there, but nevertheless this will be the main plot.

Oh, and make some stunning visuals. No matter if the rest doesn't make any sense at all, the few stunning scenes you thought up will more than enough to make up for that. Just repeat each scene a couple of times throughout the movie.

End up with something nobody expects, makes no sense, is completely impossible according to all you told your audience before, and adds nothing to the story... except some stunning visual and a faint political statement.

Makes you think the film was not "written then filmed", but rather the other way around: first there were the visuals, then someone sprinkled some random stuff all over them, and this movie came to being.